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[单项选择]The population in the 21st century according to the writer ______.
A. will be smaller than a fw years ago
B. will not be as small as people expect
C. will prove to be a threat to the world
D. will not consitute as serious a problem as expected
[单项选择]According to the 19th century theories, which of the following is NOT a reason for the supposed lesser ability among women
A. Women have a smaller brain size.
B. Women are not as intelligent as men.
C. Women and men differ in their brains.
D. Women have less developed frontal lobes.
[单项选择]According to the 28th annual survey of college freshmen conducted by the American Council on Education UCLA, ______.
A. more than half of college freshmen planned to seek advanced degrees
B. men, for the first time in the history of the survey, were more likely than women to pursue ail major types of advanced degrees
C. in 1993, more men than women sought such degrees
D. both A and C
[单项选择]According to the 4th paragraph, what interests the author is that some politicians fail to
A. perceive the value of humor.
B. gain a correct sense of values.
C. distinguish comedy from tragedy.
D. realize dangers of hypocrisy.
[单项选择]According to the passage, in the 18th century, overweight was taken as ______.
A. a sign of good health
B. a sign of stupidity
C. a sign of risk
D. a sign of beauty
[单项选择]According to the 4th paragraph, which of the following statements is TRUE
A. People like to talk in grocery stores endlessly about their sisters and family matters.
B. The obnoxious users of cell phone in public places remind us of the smokers in grocery stores years ago.
C. Smokers were angry when laws were passed to forbid smoking in groceries, and they now talked loudly in the shops on cell phone to rebel and revenge.
D. People who now talk incessantly on cell phone in grocery stores are those who liked to smoke there before.
[单项选择]The 21st Century is different from the other three schools in that ______.
A. its teaching quality is better
B. it is nearest to the city centre
C. its courses are more advanced
D. it requires an entrance examination
[单项选择]By the first decade of the 21st century, international commercial air traffic is expected ______beyond today's levels.
A. to have extended
B. to be extending
C. being extended
D. having been extended
[单项选择]Since the beginning of the 21 st century, the government has started ______.
A. a plan to produce more milk
B. a plan to offer milk to school children
C. to produce milk for more people
D. to ask schools to offer milk
[单项选择]By the middle of the 21st century, the vast majority of the world’s population ______ in cities rather than in the country.
A. are living
B. will be living
C. have lived
D. will have lived
[单项选择]John Locke, the well-known 18th century English thinker, emphasized experience as the condition for expansion of human knowledge.
A. incompatible
B. incredible
C. indefinite
D. indispensable
[单项选择]During the first half of the twentieth century, the average American household was ______ by the introduction of a group of machines that profoundly altered the daily lives of housewives.
A. transformed
B. transferred
C. transmitted
D. transported
[单项选择]The 18th century Witnessed a new literary form--the modem English novel, which is contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic
